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	ALTOONA. PA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 191a TWELVE PAGES ONE CENT. VOL. XXXV. No. 291. MEAT PACKERS. TO REWARD PEARY- COLLAPSED AFTER FIGHT. ASSERTION AS WELL AS A DENIAL THREE MEN WERE SHOT TO DEATH JURYTOOK ONLY ONE BILLOT WITNESS STICKS TO HIS STORY May Make Finder of North Pola a Rear Admiral. AVashington. February 9. Promotion to the high rank of rear admiral as one of the honors to foe bestowed upon Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. for his achievement in discovering the North Pole, received the endorsement of the senate today. The Hale bill adding Peary's name to the list of rear admirals in the navy and providing for his immediate retirement with the highest pay received by one of the rank, was favorably reported by the committee on naval affairs and was passed almost immediately without debate or comment. A similar measure offered in the Ihouse by Representative Allori, of '.Maine, was forwarded to the navy department by Chairman Foss, in the house naval committee, who stated that he expected it would ibe approved by the department and that he would then urge its passage by the house as fitting recognition of the work of Commander Peary. MAYOR GAYNOR HAS NATURAL CURIOSITY 'J .! I Has Appointed Special Committee to Investigate as to Certain Contracts. New York, February 9. Mayor Gaynor today appointed John A. Hennessy, William J. Ellis and James B. Sullivan, a committee to inquire into the management of the City Record, the official bulletin of the city, and report of the "abuses, extravagance and dishonesties" which have grown up in connecton with the contracts for furnishing the city with stationery and printers' supplies. The expenses of the board of City Record per annum have amounted to about $1,760,000. Mr. Hennessy is managing editor of the New ,York Press, which, although a republican paper, was active in support of Mayor Gaynor during the late campaign. Mr. 8ulllvan is now secretary and was formerly president of the Amateur Athletic union. Mr. Ellis was formerly confidential secretary to Mayors Grant and Gilroy and later served as an assemblyman. AS SEEN THROUGH EYES OF DIPLOMATS Those of Latin America in Washington Evidently Not in Accord With Madriz. AVashington, February 9. Such details of the battle of Loaca as have been able to get through to Washington, indicate to the Latin American diplomats here that C'hamorro by what was reported as his flight, has simply changed positions with the Madriz commander, Yasquez, who now finds himself between two insurgent forces, C-hamorro in front and General iMatla in the rear. The strategists mn!ke the deduction that when Chamorro broke through the lines of Yasquez, he hastened towards Granada and is now within .fifteen miles of the city, where, the Chamorro family is all powerful and one of the boldest. "This victory of the Madriz troops reminds me of one of Mark Twain's descriptions of a fight", declared one of the representatives of the Estrada faction, "when he said 'I inserted my nose (between his teeth and pinned him firmly to the ground.' GOLD sWGElGGS VANISHED Have Disappeared From the Cleveland Market as Well as From Some Others. C'eveland, O., February 9. Cold storage eggs have vanished from the Cleveland market and reports from Pittsburg, Cincinnati and other adjacent markets indicate that a similar situation prevails there. Notwithstanding the price of eggs has dropped from 38 cents a dozen wholesale, the figures of ten days ago, to 25 cents, tonight's quotations. Eggs went down a cent today, a feat they have accomplished daily for a week, except on the days when they went down two cents. Commission men say the cold storage supply is exhausted. Country recepits are light, but the paucity of the fresh egg supply is counterbalanced, according to the market reports, by the scanter demand. Pinchot Assails Action of Solicitor Q. P. McCabe, of the Department. FORESTERS' TRAINING The Bone of Contention, the Schools for Such Having Been Abolished. M'CABE EMPHATIC IN DENIAL New York. February 9. Clifford Pinchot, deposed chief forester of the United States but still loyal to his policies as president of the National Conservation commission, defended the rangers of the forest service ia a speech delivered before the National Arts club in New York tonight and bitterly assailed the action of George P. McCabe, solicitor of the department, who as temporary chief, after Pinchot's dismissal, took action to abolish the collegiate training of foresters at government expense. This action, Mr. Pinchot described as a "secret attack ou the service, prostitution of the law, a method so effectively used by special interests against the people and a cruel and needless loss." He said in part: "Upon my dismissal the solicitor of the department of agriculture (Goorge P. McCabe) pending the arrival of another officer from the field, was mado acting forester for three or four days. It appears that he learned then of the ranger schools at the four state universities and sent telegrams to the disbursing officers in the field to pay no expense connected with them. These telegrams were kept secret from every member of the service in Washington except the stenographer who wrote them. With equal concealment from all the men in the forest service, a letter was prepared and sent to the comptroller, asking for a speedy advance decision as to the legality of the ranger schools. This letter was clearly intended and was so framed as to secure a decision against the schools and it was successful in doing so. "This letter is a misrepresentation, because it omits to state the central, essential and incontrovertible facts: First, that the forest service must have trained rangers, and second, that it can get them only by training them after they enter the service, it follows that the training of tho ranger3 by the service- is necessary, clearly and undeniably, for the 'administration, protection and improvement of the national forests.' Being necessary for-that purpose it falls well within the terms of the agricultural appropriation bill, and la therefore lawful. "Consider now the situation under which this decision of the comptroller was obtained: The solicitor of the de-: partment of agriculture is the officer charged with promoting the welfare of the department and all Its bureaus on the legal side. Both aa solicitor and acting forester he was in honor and in duty bound to forward the' work of the forest service by every, lawful means at his command. By his official position he wa3 Its counsel and advocate. Yet ho made no attempt to assist the service In this matter. On tho contrary, he led the secret attack upon it and used anxious and successful care that no attempt to defend lt3 course should be made by any other man. The men of the forest service wero first informed that the legality of their work was in question only after adverse judgment had been rendered without giving them any hearing whatsoever. "I am not concerned with the motive behind this indefensible sacrifice of the public welfare. It is a typical Illustration of a certain way to obey tho law." 1 Declared Col' Came to His Reason of nin I Swope 5ath by 'yen- THIS IN A CAPSULE Administered, it Is Alleged, at the Instance of Dr. B. C. Hyde. USABLE TO DETERMINE INTENT Kansas City, Mo-, February 9. Colonel Thomas H. Swopo came to his death by reason of strychnine administered in a capsule at the instance of Dr. B. C. Hyde, husband of the dead millionaire's niece, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury in Independence today. Whether the drug was administered with felonious intent the jury said in its verdict it was unable to determine. The jury was out but little more than an hour. But one ballot was necessary to agree upon a verdict. Although there were numerous and hurried consultations between attorneys for the state and Dr. Hyde and his legal advisers, and rumors regarding probable prosecution were plentiful tonight, the case stands just as it did when the coroner's jury returned its verdict. Prosecutor Virgil Conkling refused to discuss his plans for the future. He said positively, however, that he would confer with his associates in the prosecutor's office, before he took any action. He and Henry L. Jost, first assistant circuit attorney, who has done most of the investigating for the state's attorney's office in the Swope mystery, will confer tomorrow. It is said tonight that Coroner Zwart will begin an inquest over Chrisman Swopc's body as soon as the official report of the physicians who are examining tho stomach and liver is received. J. K Trogden, the coroner's attorney, would not commit himself on this rumor. Dr. Hyde and his attorneys, John Clcary and Frank P. Walsh, spent the evening together at the physician's home. They made no statement. Mrs. Hyde is seriously ill and the physician is devoting all his spare time to her. The suit that Dr. Hyde has pending against Attorney John Faxton,, Dr. Hall and Dr. Stewart, for damages for $600,000 for alleged libel, will be dismissed If Dr. Hyde is pressed for depositions in the case now, it is reported tonight. It is expected that the deposition contest, which waged so fiercely last week, will begin anew now that the coroner's inquest is over. If Dr. Hyde is ruffled by the verdict he is concealing his feelings. He was present when the verdict was returned. After hearing it read he turned to his attorney and said: "What does it mean?" Mr. Cleary explained the verdict. "I see," he said simply. Then he asked his attorneys to go to lunch with him and a moment later they left the building. TENTATIVE APPROVAL House Committed on Naval Affairs Wi'l Give Meyer a Chance. Washington, D. C, February 9. The long drawn out dispute in the house committee on naval affairs over the subject of endorsing the plan of Secretary .Meyer of the reorganization of the navy is practical!;!) settled, it was stated today, and the committee will taike action next week, which will be, in effect, a tentative, approval of the secretary's ideasj The secretary will be given the opportunity to demonstrate during the next year the worth of his plans. (Representative Dawson, of Iowa, furnished the suggestion by which the committee and the secretary, reached a common understanding. (Under Mr. Dawson's plan, which, it. is expected, the committee -will-adopt, the appropriations for 1911 will be made under the old system, but 'Secretary Meyer will be vested with authority to distribute the expenditures as he may see fit. This Result of a Feud in Foreign Settlement in Washington County. SUSPECTED MEN FLEE The Shooting Came Quickly Af ter a Quarrel in Store Belonging to One. AH ALARM QUICKLY RAISED Washington, Pa., February 9. Three men were shot to death today, the result of a feud among Italians in the foreign settlement at the Shaw mine near Midway. John Marks, proprietor of a general store, is the alleged murderer, and ' Touy Putchey is said to have been his accomplice. The men fled after the shooting, and tonight armed posses are searching the hills for them. The victims are John Panelli, Mike Mania, and Tony Yalli. Marks and Putchey, It is said, had long been at odds with their neighbors, and this morning following a quarrel in Mark's store, Marks and Putchey walked to the home of Panelli and shot him dead. He was sitting at the table with his family, and threw ' p his arms as an indication that he as unarmed when he saw the men. In an adjoining house lived Tonyj Yalli. He was attracted by the 1 shooting and as he came to the win-1 dow to investigate, was shot. Marks and Putchey are said then to have hastened to the Ihome of Mania. The cries of alarm in the streets had warned him, and as he stood in the doorway, the desperate men opened fire and Mania fell dead on bis own door step. Marks and Putchey then fled. Tlho foreigners of the settlement are terrorized by the crimes and cannot be induced to leave their homes. Tonight many of the men on the night shift at the mines refused to go. to work. MAYOR AND JUDGE MORTALLY WOUNDED Enraged Spaniards in Small Towns Made an Attack on a City Hall. Madrid, February 9. A dispatch from Logrono, says that citizens of one of the small towns of the province of Logrono, enraged at the acts of the city government today made an attack on. the city hall. Many shots were exchanged and the mayor and judge were mortally wounded. Two councilmen and two of the rioters were seriously wounded. The Eating of Meat. Boston, February 9. Meat eating is necessary to the protection of health, according to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture who talked to-nigiht before the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Society of Arts. He asserted that he would eat meat as long as he had the price and that it was criminal neglect to deprive the child of his meat. "The race may survive if it he-comes vegetarian," he declared, "but It will be a queer kind of an animal." - Wa'ker Got Three Years- William, alias "Miatts" Walker, who was found guilty in the Huntingdon county courts on the charge of stealing cattle, for which he was arrested in Altoona by the local officers, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Woods, at Huntingdon. to three years in the penitentiary. Condition of King Gustave. Stockholm, February 9. King Gustave, who was operated upon for appendicitis Monday night, slept well with but brief waking intervals from 9 o'clock last night until 7 this morning. Today his majesty showed some signs of fatigue, but. suffered no pain. ACT OF VIOLENCE of in it of iS in Are Said to be Holding Secret Meetings to Fix Prices. Pittsburg, February 9. Information of an alleged coalition of local packers was placed in the hands of United States Attorney Jordan today, who say "it looks like a mighty good case." The federal prosecutor will investigate the evidence and turn it Mr. Jordan says ne couia not aci unless interstate commerce laws have been violated. According to Mr. Jordan, the information charges that the members the combination meet once a-week a downtown brokerage office, where they fix the prices of pork provisions for the next week. It is alleged also that prices are shaded in some instances, and that rebates are given to favored retailers, but the organization is said to impose a fine of $50 when such cases are discovered. The information is said to have come from a large retail butcher, whose name Mr. Jordan will not disclose. State Senator Wllbert, who was a merchant for years, said today: "There is something back of the high price of food stuffs that I do not know anything about. What ever the secret is, has been well gaurded, but is evident that something besides general conditions is at fault." IOWA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS REMOVAL ACT By Its Provisions Public Officials May be Removed for Intoxication. Des Moines, la-, February 9. The Iowa supreme court today upheld the constitutionality of the Cosson removal law, which provides that I public officials may be removed for intoxication. The decision confirms the ouster of A. H. Handerson as mayor of Marengo. The court holds that the question drinking goes to a man's qualifications for office and that even though this habit is an issue in the election and the people decide for him, he can still be ousted from office for that very fault. STILL THERE MAY NO STRIKE But the Switchmen Voted 3,007 to 91 in Favor of Such Action. IChicago, February 9. IBy a reported vote of 2,007 to 91, switchmen members of the Brotherhood of Railroad trainmen of eighteen Chicago railroads decided in favor of a strike. Tho vote was announced today by F. A. Whitney, vice president of the w ii.cn men's union. At a recent conference between representatives of the union and general managers of the railroads an increase in wages was refused. The railroads made certain concessions the working rules and offered to submit the wage question to arbitration under the Rrdraan law. The switchmen say that they do not wish arbitration but it is generally believed by the railroads that the question will be settled by that method and that there will be no strike. General Wood Resting Comfortably. Baltimore, Md., February 9. General Leonard Wood was reported this morning as resting comfortably at the hospital here, where he is a patient. It was said that his condition was about the same as on yesterday when it was reported as somewhat improved. TREATY OF PEACE HAS BEEN SIGNED Conductors and Engineers on National Railways of Mexico, Will Not Resign. Mexico City, February 9. All differences between the conductors and engineers of the National Railways of Mexico and the management were settled his afternoon, the peace pact being signed at 2:30 o'clock. Both the railway officials and the employes state they are satisfied with the agreement reached, the terms of which they refuse to divulge. AT BETHLEHEI mand with General Superintendent Buck, and the moulders committee gave the president until Friday to reach a decision. Owing to a heavy storm at the time the men were leaving the plant tonight there was little effort made on the part of the pickets to persuade, or intimidate, the workmen. A number of structural iron workers came here today from Elizabeth-port, N. J., to enter the employ of the iBethlehem Steel company, but when they learned that a strike was on they returned home. Ko meetings were held either this afternoon or tonight by the strikers but the leaders held several conferences and are believed to be mapping ouj, a turUier fitem ttUs Arrests Follow Boxing Match Held to Settle Grudge. Chicago, February 9, Harry Oil-more, the veteran prire fighter; Joseph McCarthy and George Loatham were taken into custody by the police today pending the outcome of injuries suffered by Albert Wllkow-skl in a boxing match at Glhnore's academy last night. Wilkowskl is now in a hospital and is said to be dying. McCarthy was Wilkowski's opponent and Loatham was one of the seconds. Harry Gil-more, Jr., will also be taken into custody. According to Gllmore, McCarthy and Wilkowskl met in a boxing match to settle a grudge that existed between them as a result of boxing lessons at the academy. They fought ten rounds with two-ounce gloves. Both finished in apparently good condition, but Wilkowskl collapsed a few minutes later. The Company Will Appeal. Philadelphia, February 9. A caBe of interest to travellers was decided in common pleas court here today when a Jury held the Pennsylvania Railroad company liable for the full value of baggage lost In a 10-cent package room at one of its stations in New York. The company contended the package rooms were only maintained for the accommodation of passengers and the small cost charged did not Impose upon it any obligation beyond f 10. The Judge said the company had assumed the safekeeping of the baggage and its failure to do so -amounted practically to violation of contract. He therefore permitted the case to go to the jury, which rendered a verdict of 1254.25, the full amount of the claim, 'ith interest The company will appeal. THIS MAN'S INJURIES HAVE PROVED FATAL They Were Received In a Boxing Match and Three Men Are Held. Chicago, February 9. Albert Wilkowskl died at a hospital tonight, following injuries received last night in a ten-round boxing match. The police took Into custody, pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest, Harry Gilmore, the veteran prize fighter; Joseph McCarthy and George Leath-am. The bout took place in Gilmorc's boxing academy with McCarthy as Wilkowski's opponent. Leatham was one of the seconds. The men fought with two-ounce gloves. The rounds were fast and furious. At the tenth round the men finished in apparently good condition, but shortly afterward Wilkowski collapsed. His death followed twenty-four hours later. Wilkowsl was known a "Jack Coburn of Grand Rapids." Physicians paid he died of a fracture of the skull. It is said the fight as arranged without the knowledge of the police and in violation of the city ordinance. 'The spectators were attracted to the academy by the announcement of an "exhibition" match. As a result of the fatal affair the police have been instructed to stop all such bouts. DIDN'T K FOR TURKEY YEARS But Admitted That Goat's
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			Harry Oil-more, the veteran prire fighter; Joseph McCarthy and George Loatham were taken into custody by the police today pending the outcome of injuries suffered by Albert Wllkow-skl in a boxing match at Glhnore's academy last night. Wilkowskl is now in a hospital and is said to be dying. McCarthy was Wilkowski's opponent and Loatham was one of the seconds. Harry Gil-more, Jr., will also be taken into custody. According to Gllmore, McCarthy and Wilkowskl met in a boxing match to settle a grudge that existed between them as a result of boxing lessons at the academy. They fought ten rounds with two-ounce gloves. Both finished in apparently good condition, but Wilkowskl collapsed a few minutes later. The Company Will Appeal. Philadelphia, February 9. A caBe of interest to travellers was decided in common pleas court here today when a Jury held the Pennsylvania Railroad company liable for the full value of baggage lost In a 10-cent package room at one of its stations in New York. The company contended the package rooms were only maintained for the accommodation of passengers and the small cost charged did not Impose upon it any obligation beyond f 10. The Judge said the company had assumed the safekeeping of the baggage and its failure to do so -amounted practically to violation of contract. He therefore permitted the case to go to the jury, which rendered a verdict of 1254.25, the full amount of the claim, 'ith interest The company will appeal. THIS MAN'S INJURIES HAVE PROVED FATAL They Were Received In a Boxing Match and Three Men Are Held. Chicago, February 9. Albert Wilkowskl died at a hospital tonight, following injuries received last night in a ten-round boxing match. The police took Into custody, pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest, Harry Gilmore, the veteran prize fighter; Joseph McCarthy and George Leath-am. The bout took place in Gilmorc's boxing academy with McCarthy as Wilkowski's opponent. Leatham was one of the seconds. The men fought with two-ounce gloves. The rounds were fast and furious. At the tenth round the men finished in apparently good condition, but shortly afterward Wilkowski collapsed. His death followed twenty-four hours later. Wilkowsl was known a "Jack Coburn of Grand Rapids." Physicians paid he died of a fracture of the skull. It is said the fight as arranged without the knowledge of the police and in violation of the city ordinance. 'The spectators were attracted to the academy by the announcement of an "exhibition" match. As a result of the fatal affair the police have been instructed to stop all such bouts. DIDN'T K FOR TURKEY YEARS But Admitted That Goat's

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ALTOONA. PA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 191a TWELVE PAGES ONE CENT. VOL. XXXV. No. 291. MEAT PACKERS. TO REWARD PEARY- COLLAPSED AFTER FIGHT. ASSERTION AS WELL AS A DENIAL THREE MEN WERE SHOT TO DEATH JURYTOOK ONLY ONE BILLOT WITNESS STICKS TO HIS STORY May Make Finder of North Pola a Rear Admiral. AVashington. February 9. Promotion to the high rank of rear admiral as one of the honors to foe bestowed upon Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. for his achievement in discovering the North Pole, received the endorsement of the senate today. The Hale bill adding Peary's name to the list of rear admirals in the navy and providing for his immediate retirement with the highest pay received by one of the rank, was favorably reported by the committee on naval affairs and was passed almost immediately without debate or comment. A similar measure offered in the Ihouse by Representative Allori, of '.Maine, was forwarded to the navy department by Chairman Foss, in the house naval committee, who stated that he expected it would ibe approved by the department and that he would then urge its passage by the house as fitting recognition of the work of Commander Peary. MAYOR GAYNOR HAS NATURAL CURIOSITY 'J .! I Has Appointed Special Committee to Investigate as to Certain Contracts. New York, February 9. Mayor Gaynor today appointed John A. Hennessy, William J. Ellis and James B. Sullivan, a committee to inquire into the management of the City Record, the official bulletin of the city, and report of the "abuses, extravagance and dishonesties" which have grown up in connecton with the contracts for furnishing the city with stationery and printers' supplies. The expenses of the board of City Record per annum have amounted to about $1,760,000. Mr. Hennessy is managing editor of the New ,York Press, which, although a republican paper, was active in support of Mayor Gaynor during the late campaign. Mr. 8ulllvan is now secretary and was formerly president of the Amateur Athletic union. Mr. Ellis was formerly confidential secretary to Mayors Grant and Gilroy and later served as an assemblyman. AS SEEN THROUGH EYES OF DIPLOMATS Those of Latin America in Washington Evidently Not in Accord With Madriz. AVashington, February 9. Such details of the battle of Loaca as have been able to get through to Washington, indicate to the Latin American diplomats here that C'hamorro by what was reported as his flight, has simply changed positions with the Madriz commander, Yasquez, who now finds himself between two insurgent forces, C-hamorro in front and General iMatla in the rear. The strategists mn!ke the deduction that when Chamorro broke through the lines of Yasquez, he hastened towards Granada and is now within .fifteen miles of the city, where, the Chamorro family is all powerful and one of the boldest. "This victory of the Madriz troops reminds me of one of Mark Twain's descriptions of a fight", declared one of the representatives of the Estrada faction, "when he said 'I inserted my nose (between his teeth and pinned him firmly to the ground.' GOLD sWGElGGS VANISHED Have Disappeared From the Cleveland Market as Well as From Some Others. C'eveland, O., February 9. Cold storage eggs have vanished from the Cleveland market and reports from Pittsburg, Cincinnati and other adjacent markets indicate that a similar situation prevails there. Notwithstanding the price of eggs has dropped from 38 cents a dozen wholesale, the figures of ten days ago, to 25 cents, tonight's quotations. Eggs went down a cent today, a feat they have accomplished daily for a week, except on the days when they went down two cents. Commission men say the cold storage supply is exhausted. Country recepits are light, but the paucity of the fresh egg supply is counterbalanced, according to the market reports, by the scanter demand. Pinchot Assails Action of Solicitor Q. P. McCabe, of the Department. FORESTERS' TRAINING The Bone of Contention, the Schools for Such Having Been Abolished. M'CABE EMPHATIC IN DENIAL New York. February 9. Clifford Pinchot, deposed chief forester of the United States but still loyal to his policies as president of the National Conservation commission, defended the rangers of the forest service ia a speech delivered before the National Arts club in New York tonight and bitterly assailed the action of George P. McCabe, solicitor of the department, who as temporary chief, after Pinchot's dismissal, took action to abolish the collegiate training of foresters at government expense. This action, Mr. Pinchot described as a "secret attack ou the service, prostitution of the law, a method so effectively used by special interests against the people and a cruel and needless loss." He said in part: "Upon my dismissal the solicitor of the department of agriculture (Goorge P. McCabe) pending the arrival of another officer from the field, was mado acting forester for three or four days. It appears that he learned then of the ranger schools at the four state universities and sent telegrams to the disbursing officers in the field to pay no expense connected with them. These telegrams were kept secret from every member of the service in Washington except the stenographer who wrote them. With equal concealment from all the men in the forest service, a letter was prepared and sent to the comptroller, asking for a speedy advance decision as to the legality of the ranger schools. This letter was clearly intended and was so framed as to secure a decision against the schools and it was successful in doing so. "This letter is a misrepresentation, because it omits to state the central, essential and incontrovertible facts: First, that the forest service must have trained rangers, and second, that it can get them only by training them after they enter the service, it follows that the training of tho ranger3 by the service- is necessary, clearly and undeniably, for the 'administration, protection and improvement of the national forests.' Being necessary for-that purpose it falls well within the terms of the agricultural appropriation bill, and la therefore lawful. "Consider now the situation under which this decision of the comptroller was obtained: The solicitor of the de-: partment of agriculture is the officer charged with promoting the welfare of the department and all Its bureaus on the legal side. Both aa solicitor and acting forester he was in honor and in duty bound to forward the' work of the forest service by every, lawful means at his command. By his official position he wa3 Its counsel and advocate. Yet ho made no attempt to assist the service In this matter. On tho contrary, he led the secret attack upon it and used anxious and successful care that no attempt to defend lt3 course should be made by any other man. The men of the forest service wero first informed that the legality of their work was in question only after adverse judgment had been rendered without giving them any hearing whatsoever. "I am not concerned with the motive behind this indefensible sacrifice of the public welfare. It is a typical Illustration of a certain way to obey tho law." 1 Declared Col' Came to His Reason of nin I Swope 5ath by 'yen- THIS IN A CAPSULE Administered, it Is Alleged, at the Instance of Dr. B. C. Hyde. USABLE TO DETERMINE INTENT Kansas City, Mo-, February 9. Colonel Thomas H. Swopo came to his death by reason of strychnine administered in a capsule at the instance of Dr. B. C. Hyde, husband of the dead millionaire's niece, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury in Independence today. Whether the drug was administered with felonious intent the jury said in its verdict it was unable to determine. The jury was out but little more than an hour. But one ballot was necessary to agree upon a verdict. Although there were numerous and hurried consultations between attorneys for the state and Dr. Hyde and his legal advisers, and rumors regarding probable prosecution were plentiful tonight, the case stands just as it did when the coroner's jury returned its verdict. Prosecutor Virgil Conkling refused to discuss his plans for the future. He said positively, however, that he would confer with his associates in the prosecutor's office, before he took any action. He and Henry L. Jost, first assistant circuit attorney, who has done most of the investigating for the state's attorney's office in the Swope mystery, will confer tomorrow. It is said tonight that Coroner Zwart will begin an inquest over Chrisman Swopc's body as soon as the official report of the physicians who are examining tho stomach and liver is received. J. K Trogden, the coroner's attorney, would not commit himself on this rumor. Dr. Hyde and his attorneys, John Clcary and Frank P. Walsh, spent the evening together at the physician's home. They made no statement. Mrs. Hyde is seriously ill and the physician is devoting all his spare time to her. The suit that Dr. Hyde has pending against Attorney John Faxton,, Dr. Hall and Dr. Stewart, for damages for $600,000 for alleged libel, will be dismissed If Dr. Hyde is pressed for depositions in the case now, it is reported tonight. It is expected that the deposition contest, which waged so fiercely last week, will begin anew now that the coroner's inquest is over. If Dr. Hyde is ruffled by the verdict he is concealing his feelings. He was present when the verdict was returned. After hearing it read he turned to his attorney and said: "What does it mean?" Mr. Cleary explained the verdict. "I see," he said simply. Then he asked his attorneys to go to lunch with him and a moment later they left the building. TENTATIVE APPROVAL House Committed on Naval Affairs Wi'l Give Meyer a Chance. Washington, D. C, February 9. The long drawn out dispute in the house committee on naval affairs over the subject of endorsing the plan of Secretary .Meyer of the reorganization of the navy is practical!;!) settled, it was stated today, and the committee will taike action next week, which will be, in effect, a tentative, approval of the secretary's ideasj The secretary will be given the opportunity to demonstrate during the next year the worth of his plans. (Representative Dawson, of Iowa, furnished the suggestion by which the committee and the secretary, reached a common understanding. (Under Mr. Dawson's plan, which, it. is expected, the committee -will-adopt, the appropriations for 1911 will be made under the old system, but 'Secretary Meyer will be vested with authority to distribute the expenditures as he may see fit. This Result of a Feud in Foreign Settlement in Washington County. SUSPECTED MEN FLEE The Shooting Came Quickly Af ter a Quarrel in Store Belonging to One. AH ALARM QUICKLY RAISED Washington, Pa., February 9. Three men were shot to death today, the result of a feud among Italians in the foreign settlement at the Shaw mine near Midway. John Marks, proprietor of a general store, is the alleged murderer, and ' Touy Putchey is said to have been his accomplice. The men fled after the shooting, and tonight armed posses are searching the hills for them. The victims are John Panelli, Mike Mania, and Tony Yalli. Marks and Putchey, It is said, had long been at odds with their neighbors, and this morning following a quarrel in Mark's store, Marks and Putchey walked to the home of Panelli and shot him dead. He was sitting at the table with his family, and threw ' p his arms as an indication that he as unarmed when he saw the men. In an adjoining house lived Tonyj Yalli. He was attracted by the 1 shooting and as he came to the win-1 dow to investigate, was shot. Marks and Putchey are said then to have hastened to the Ihome of Mania. The cries of alarm in the streets had warned him, and as he stood in the doorway, the desperate men opened fire and Mania fell dead on bis own door step. Marks and Putchey then fled. Tlho foreigners of the settlement are terrorized by the crimes and cannot be induced to leave their homes. Tonight many of the men on the night shift at the mines refused to go. to work. MAYOR AND JUDGE MORTALLY WOUNDED Enraged Spaniards in Small Towns Made an Attack on a City Hall. Madrid, February 9. A dispatch from Logrono, says that citizens of one of the small towns of the province of Logrono, enraged at the acts of the city government today made an attack on. the city hall. Many shots were exchanged and the mayor and judge were mortally wounded. Two councilmen and two of the rioters were seriously wounded. The Eating of Meat. Boston, February 9. Meat eating is necessary to the protection of health, according to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture who talked to-nigiht before the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Society of Arts. He asserted that he would eat meat as long as he had the price and that it was criminal neglect to deprive the child of his meat. "The race may survive if it he-comes vegetarian," he declared, "but It will be a queer kind of an animal." - Wa'ker Got Three Years- William, alias "Miatts" Walker, who was found guilty in the Huntingdon county courts on the charge of stealing cattle, for which he was arrested in Altoona by the local officers, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Woods, at Huntingdon. to three years in the penitentiary. Condition of King Gustave. Stockholm, February 9. King Gustave, who was operated upon for appendicitis Monday night, slept well with but brief waking intervals from 9 o'clock last night until 7 this morning. Today his majesty showed some signs of fatigue, but. suffered no pain. ACT OF VIOLENCE of in it of iS in Are Said to be Holding Secret Meetings to Fix Prices. Pittsburg, February 9. Information of an alleged coalition of local packers was placed in the hands of United States Attorney Jordan today, who say "it looks like a mighty good case." The federal prosecutor will investigate the evidence and turn it Mr. Jordan says ne couia not aci unless interstate commerce laws have been violated. According to Mr. Jordan, the information charges that the members the combination meet once a-week a downtown brokerage office, where they fix the prices of pork provisions for the next week. It is alleged also that prices are shaded in some instances, and that rebates are given to favored retailers, but the organization is said to impose a fine of $50 when such cases are discovered. The information is said to have come from a large retail butcher, whose name Mr. Jordan will not disclose. State Senator Wllbert, who was a merchant for years, said today: "There is something back of the high price of food stuffs that I do not know anything about. What ever the secret is, has been well gaurded, but is evident that something besides general conditions is at fault." IOWA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS REMOVAL ACT By Its Provisions Public Officials May be Removed for Intoxication. Des Moines, la-, February 9. The Iowa supreme court today upheld the constitutionality of the Cosson removal law, which provides that I public officials may be removed for intoxication. The decision confirms the ouster of A. H. Handerson as mayor of Marengo. The court holds that the question drinking goes to a man's qualifications for office and that even though this habit is an issue in the election and the people decide for him, he can still be ousted from office for that very fault. STILL THERE MAY NO STRIKE But the Switchmen Voted 3,007 to 91 in Favor of Such Action. IChicago, February 9. IBy a reported vote of 2,007 to 91, switchmen members of the Brotherhood of Railroad trainmen of eighteen Chicago railroads decided in favor of a strike. Tho vote was announced today by F. A. Whitney, vice president of the w ii.cn men's union. At a recent conference between representatives of the union and general managers of the railroads an increase in wages was refused. The railroads made certain concessions the working rules and offered to submit the wage question to arbitration under the Rrdraan law. The switchmen say that they do not wish arbitration but it is generally believed by the railroads that the question will be settled by that method and that there will be no strike. General Wood Resting Comfortably. Baltimore, Md., February 9. General Leonard Wood was reported this morning as resting comfortably at the hospital here, where he is a patient. It was said that his condition was about the same as on yesterday when it was reported as somewhat improved. TREATY OF PEACE HAS BEEN SIGNED Conductors and Engineers on National Railways of Mexico, Will Not Resign. Mexico City, February 9. All differences between the conductors and engineers of the National Railways of Mexico and the management were settled his afternoon, the peace pact being signed at 2:30 o'clock. Both the railway officials and the employes state they are satisfied with the agreement reached, the terms of which they refuse to divulge. AT BETHLEHEI mand with General Superintendent Buck, and the moulders committee gave the president until Friday to reach a decision. Owing to a heavy storm at the time the men were leaving the plant tonight there was little effort made on the part of the pickets to persuade, or intimidate, the workmen. A number of structural iron workers came here today from Elizabeth-port, N. J., to enter the employ of the iBethlehem Steel company, but when they learned that a strike was on they returned home. Ko meetings were held either this afternoon or tonight by the strikers but the leaders held several conferences and are believed to be mapping ouj, a turUier fitem ttUs Arrests Follow Boxing Match Held to Settle Grudge. Chicago, February 9, Harry Oil-more, the veteran prire fighter; Joseph McCarthy and George Loatham were taken into custody by the police today pending the outcome of injuries suffered by Albert Wllkow-skl in a boxing match at Glhnore's academy last night. Wilkowskl is now in a hospital and is said to be dying. McCarthy was Wilkowski's opponent and Loatham was one of the seconds. Harry Gil-more, Jr., will also be taken into custody. According to Gllmore, McCarthy and Wilkowskl met in a boxing match to settle a grudge that existed between them as a result of boxing lessons at the academy. They fought ten rounds with two-ounce gloves. Both finished in apparently good condition, but Wilkowskl collapsed a few minutes later. The Company Will Appeal. Philadelphia, February 9. A caBe of interest to travellers was decided in common pleas court here today when a Jury held the Pennsylvania Railroad company liable for the full value of baggage lost In a 10-cent package room at one of its stations in New York. The company contended the package rooms were only maintained for the accommodation of passengers and the small cost charged did not Impose upon it any obligation beyond f 10. The Judge said the company had assumed the safekeeping of the baggage and its failure to do so -amounted practically to violation of contract. He therefore permitted the case to go to the jury, which rendered a verdict of 1254.25, the full amount of the claim, 'ith interest The company will appeal. THIS MAN'S INJURIES HAVE PROVED FATAL They Were Received In a Boxing Match and Three Men Are Held. Chicago, February 9. Albert Wilkowskl died at a hospital tonight, following injuries received last night in a ten-round boxing match. The police took Into custody, pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest, Harry Gilmore, the veteran prize fighter; Joseph McCarthy and George Leath-am. The bout took place in Gilmorc's boxing academy with McCarthy as Wilkowski's opponent. Leatham was one of the seconds. The men fought with two-ounce gloves. The rounds were fast and furious. At the tenth round the men finished in apparently good condition, but shortly afterward Wilkowski collapsed. His death followed twenty-four hours later. Wilkowsl was known a "Jack Coburn of Grand Rapids." Physicians paid he died of a fracture of the skull. It is said the fight as arranged without the knowledge of the police and in violation of the city ordinance. 'The spectators were attracted to the academy by the announcement of an "exhibition" match. As a result of the fatal affair the police have been instructed to stop all such bouts. DIDN'T K FOR TURKEY YEARS But Admitted That Goat's